Laney College's Associate in Arts in Journalism for Transfer program is designed to prepare students for a seamless transfer with junior status and priority admission to a California State University campus to a program or major in Journalism or similar major for completion of a baccalaureate degree.

Upon completion of this program a student will be able to: • Assemble a portfolio of appropriate photographs, writings, journals or digital media requiring skills and understanding of techniques of journalism. • Write news, features, and opinion pieces in newspaper style. • Apply media law, fact-checking and ethics to the journalistic process.

Students who complete the degree seek jobs in the vast, and changing, field of communications. They become reporters, photographers, copy editors, computer production staff, webmasters as well as jobs in public relations.